swanson

56 ms·

511.
by swanson 13y ago
I don't get why they used SHA-1. I mean, LivingSocial has been sending people to speak and attend a lot of developer conferences. They hire a lot of bright people. Did none of the Rails devs raise an alert of like "Uhh hey guys, why don't w
512.
by swanson 14y ago
So I tried out the service (followgen.com) today - targeting "#ruby", "software craftsmanship", "hacker news" and "software near MY_GEO_IP_THING" - because I was curious. It would be nice to have a bit more exposure to developers for things
513.
by swanson 14y ago
Have you tried just using Jira for this as well? * "First-class item" => Make a custom work-item type for "Requirement" * "have comments attached" => Jira comments * "Generate a task/see tasks completed" => Add items as sub-task
514.
by swanson 14y ago
http://www.paperplane.io/ supports static hosting from Dropbox and Github.
515.
How to Not Quit(mdswanson.com)
2 points by swanson 14y ago|0 comments
516.
by swanson 14y ago
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/05/microsoft-studios-creative...
517.
by swanson 14y ago
I think this is good concept - though I'm not sure if I would take it to the levels that they did (the Facebook part was a bit much for me...). Even a small thing - a personalized postcard in the mail that arrives a few days before you star
518.
More Complicated Than It Needs To Be(mdswanson.com)
1 points by swanson 14y ago|0 comments
519.
by swanson 14y ago
Just make sure this logic doesn't leak out and pollute your whole codebase. Otherwise you will have that whole hairy mess of opening multiple async connections with auto-retries right in the middle of your business logic. Want to send a Sho
520.
by swanson 14y ago
I do value safety and engineering - in my mind, an ideal deliverable would be the source code, an automated test suite, and a 1-page document explaining the overall design of the code. Comments don't provide safety - tests do. Comments are
521.
by swanson 14y ago
Write a test first -> figure out how you want to interact with the code -> then actually start crafting code. And the test can actually be executed. I used to do the "sketch it out" a lot more, but I think Test-First is a better app
522.
by swanson 14y ago
It all comes down to: does the benefit out way the costs? A well-maintained suite of automated tests provide an enormous benefit. A brittle set of Selenium scripts costs a project more than paying a Tester to manually run scenarios.
523.
by swanson 14y ago
Comments - like documentation - are a liability. Most projects tend to treat them as supporting artifacts, but they are actually unidentified risks. Did you account for the time spent either rewriting documentation/doxygen/comments as you g
524.
by swanson 14y ago
Derek Sivers maybe? http://sivers.org/book
525.
Jesse Noller: I'm officially no longer PyCon chair(twitter.com)
5 points by swanson 14y ago|1 comments
526.
by swanson 14y ago
Will there be video of TiP BoF posted?
527.
Cross-Pollinate(swanson.github.com)
1 points by swanson 14y ago|0 comments
528.
by swanson 14y ago
"putting them in the To: field to enhance deliverability"
529.
by swanson 14y ago
It would be interesting - though it will be some time before the price comes down. The cameras to do the tracking cost $100k/year at the moment.
530.
The Toronto Raptors, SportVU cameras, and the NBA's analytical revolution(grantland.com)
112 points by swanson 14y ago|30 comments
531.
by swanson 14y ago
Seriously? It's a clock - how many unique ways are there to design it? It's a folded up map with pins in it. He moved the hour/minutes hands, changed the colors and shadows, used different continents in the map.
532.
by swanson 14y ago
Write a blog post about a concept or idea in the general sense => "I need specific examples or this is just a religion/consultant-speak". Write a blog post about specific examples => "It might work for this example, but in my experi
533.
by swanson 14y ago
Thanks - this is helpful.
534.
by swanson 14y ago
Could someone link me to a consumer web app with standard features (generating HTML, talking to a database, making requests to 3rd party services) that uses one of these typed functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, whatever)? I'm genuinely
535.
by swanson 14y ago
Black text on a grey background? How can anyone expect to read this? We don't all have retina displays and use OSX. http://contrastrebellion.com/
536.
by swanson 14y ago
I really, really enjoyed reading this. The insights are awesome and the ability to see each small iteration was really cool. I would definitely encourage you to do this in the future. Anyone know of similar write ups in this style?
537.
by swanson 14y ago
Take a look at some of the screencaps below (or mine here: http://i.imgur.com/XpVhDMx.png Chrome/Win7) - this isn't the typical "omg don't use dark gray on light gray". The "t" and "l" are in distinguishable, so it is pretty hard for me t
538.
by swanson 14y ago
Yeah, forms in an email are tricky. Some clients actually do support them - which was a big surprise to me! http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/forms/ Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
539.
by swanson 14y ago
My take is that when you use a slider - or the common 5-item Likert scales (strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree) - people will waffle over their answer. The fewer the options, the lesser cognitive overload of having
540.
by swanson 14y ago
Sure - https://www.moraleapp.com/

More ›